Old New Zealand and Other Writings (Literature of Travel, Exploration and Empire) - Softcover

Maning, F.E.

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9780718501969: Old New Zealand and Other Writings (Literature of Travel, Exploration and Empire)
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ISBN 10: 0718501969 ISBN 13: 9780718501969
Publisher: Leicester University Press, 2001

Synopsis

In Old New Zealand (1863), F.E. Maning recalls living alongside Maori in "the good old times before Governors were invented, and law, and justice, and all that." His account of the early contact period is widely acknowledged to be a masterpiece of some sort, but the extent to which it is fiction, autobiography, ethnography, history, or satire remains a matter for debate. This is the first scholarly edition of Maning's writings. It includes a revealing selection of Maning's unpublished letters, and Alex Calder contributes an introduction and notes that illuminate the works' historical, ethnographic, and literary contexts, showing how settler colonialism is an incomplete and contested process, the problems of which are enacted in Maning's writings, and repeated in the history of their reception.

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Alex Calder is Lecturer in English, University of Auckland, New Zealand.Alex Calder is Lecturer in English, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

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Publisher
Leicester University Press
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0718501969
ISBN 13 
9780718501969
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
256
Editor
Calder Alex
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